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, The Gazette

On Saturday night, Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to Montreal with UFC 154 at Bell Centre, where in the main event, Montreal superstar and welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre meets interim champion Carlos Condit in the main event. St-Pierre recently went 1-on-1 with Postmedia News MMA reporter Dave Deibert, discussing Movember, crying during movies and the supermodel that distracted him in the middle of a fight ...

POSTMEDIA: This month has been dubbed Movember, with men all over sporting moustaches as a cancer fundraiser. On a scale of 1 to UFC Hall-of-Famer Dan Severn or Tom Selleck, what kind of moustache can you grow?

ST-PIERRE: I’m not a hairy guy so it’s very hard for me to have a moustache. I would never be able to be like Dan Severn, unfortunately.

POSTMEDIA: Name the last TV show or movie to make you cry.

ST-PIERRE: The last one is called La Guerre des Tuques (a 1984 movie whose title translates in English to The Dog Who Stopped the War). It’s a kid’s movie and I was a kid when I saw it. I remember I was so shy. At the end, the doggie dies. I was so shy, I was crying and I tried to hide it. I didn’t want my sister to see it and then tell everyone at school and all my friends. I was hiding it. But they saw me. I cry one tear and everybody knew it ((laughs).

POSTMEDIA: You’re stranded on a desert island. What DVD, CD and book do you bring?

ST-PIERRE: One DVD? I would take maybe a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. One book? Maybe The Art of War or something like that. A CD? Some hip-hop.

POSTMEDIA: Who’s the most famous person in your cellphone that you could call up right now?

ST-PIERRE: Jean-Claude Van Damme, maybe.

POSTMEDIA: Have you seen The Expendables 2?

ST-PIERRE: Of course.

POSTMEDIA: Have you ever been in the cage and your mind just wanders off?

ST-PIERRE: One time I was fighting against BJ Penn. I had his back against the fence. I’m not kidding you, for a few seconds I look and I was staring at a beautiful woman in the audience. It was … uh … (snaps fingers) Cindy Crawford. I stared at her. I’m thinking, ‘My God, she’s so beautiful. And she’s looking at me.’ And just next to her, I see her husband looking at me, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God. I can’t look at her. Her husband’s looking at me.’ Now I’m thinking, ‘Of course, they’re looking at me. I’m doing the show right now and I’m in the middle of the fight.’ So I’m like, ‘Go back to your focus.’ ((laughs)

Sometimes when you fight, people don’t understand, you have to fight to really understand it, time comes slow. All these thoughts come in your mind but in maybe one second, but all these thoughts cross your mind in that one second. Then you go back to normal speed. It’s kind of weird. In Rocky, he has the slowdown — baaang, when he gets punched. This thing really happened. In a fight, the way it is, it’s very special. When you’re in a very stressful moment, like a surviving mode, stuff like that happens. It’s crazy. People don’t really believe it but it’s actually true. You can ask any other fighter. It does happen.

POSTMEDIA: Your name is always brought up in dream-fight scenarios, like BJ Penn, Nick Diaz or Anderson Silva. What would be your own personal dream fight?

ST-PIERRE: I would have liked to fight Jean-Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport ((laughs). That would have been my dream fight, in an MMA cage.

POSTMEDIA: What’s a talent you secretly wish you had?

ST-PIERRE: I would like to be able to bluff better. I’m a terrible bluffer.

POSTMEDIA: Like in life or cards?

ST-PIERRE: In life and everything. I try sometime. Someone asks me something: ‘How do I look?’ I say, ‘Oh, you look very nice.’ But I have a hard time lying. They see me and my eyes. This causes me a lot of trouble (laughs).